Lucid Thursday
C U Next Friday
Lucid's new persona is gonna be the down to earth "Next Friday" who believes in the reality of continuous time and the existence of history.
We complain a lot about paying a 30,000 docking fee
I party with some slightly dirtier types, and learn that an entire planetoid of miners and scientists and etc have all been fired by Lazarus Corporation
automated security, maybe i can hack it
theyre asking us to head in and try to dig up some dirt s they can get revenge.
Corporate espionage, detective work, etc
FASCISTS in WILD SPACE? Its more likely than you think.
After a Pariahan front corporation lands to survey as well, we investigate
6 person operation
it would take a long time to figure out more
looks like they weren't expecting a fight, doesn't mean they're aren't ready tho
It doesn't appear to have weapons, and it looks to mine overall in design
same kind of ship as Peter's though, so it's been modified
Ihero RIP
Our very good friend we knew for a long time Ihero has died, and now we are stuck here an extra 12 hours.
So for revenge we would like to try to sneak attack The Space King.
The sun rises on October 12th.
Castor salvages 2 of the battledress suits from the lobsters. They will need an expensive repair.
Ion, Peter, Lucid leave for a 2 hour sensor sweep of the planet, finding no evidence of The Space King or The Red Queen.
The system has 5 planets and 2 belts, which are pretty far away and would take too long for anyone to arrive before the end of our contract.
We successfully survived the contract. Spared by the Math Rocks.
Proceed to Escort Mission. From Scientia to Arendt, which will require 1 week in jump space.
After a successful hand off, we go to Miracle to get some cash money.
Lucid is spying on the Mercs, getting to know them from a distance. Ion Ion goes to a bar with Peter, and does bring someone back, being quite obvious about it. Lucid is trying to figure out details about Luquia specifically, and see's her going home with a handsome gentleman. Urdush went to one of the seediest bars.
Lucid and Benat are having a chat about her having a lack of direction. Benat suggests joinging the Syncestraean Marines. Clearly she cannot. Castor rolls in stinking of barley wine, offering cryptic advoce. Benat checks his eyes with a flashlight, and Castor doesnt respond for at least 30 seconds. Lucid thinks he may have brain damage, but it's psionic bullshit.
"Weird Thought-" Castor puts his drinks away, "You wouldn't be interested in like- putting- selling some stuff, shooting some stuff from the front in one of the battle dresses.
On the next jump, Benat is delivering soup to the wounded, and Lucid follows behind, crunching up crackers and pouring them on the soup for them. Astrid is offended and asks for a promotion. Lucid calls over Peter, making a money gesture. Peter and Astrid negotiate an injury bonus.
We get paid a 6 milly woot woot.
Lucid and Jin talk about Expert Wafers, after Lucid gets a wafer jack installed.
Everyone is afraid of Lucid becoming a shut n who interacts with the world through her robots. Lucid ends up buying 3 chips at level 3 each to try out, Xeno-technology, Investigation, and Gambler. She plugs in the Gambling chip, and asks around who is interested in joinging her in trying it out.
Lucid finds a nice gambling den, somewhat spicy, but no cock fighting. Peter, Castor, and Jin. Lucid is able to make a moderate win, before she is politely asked to cease her betting. Jin made out with a milly.
Mercenary Meanderings
We begin on the October 10th, Day 2. And can you believe it but, something happens again today. Halfway through Shift One, one of the shipbuilders checks the the sensors station and tells us there are incoming ground crafts.
Folks from Shift 1 take cover in a horse shoe configuration, to try and flank and ambush them. Mei is held back, but asked to suit up and be prepared regardless. Ion is going to be on the Laser Turret. He biffs 2 shots out of 3, but at least the one shot that connected absolutely exploded to smithereens.They really fucking want this ship, or to keep it away from the clients perhaps.
2 Grav Craft disembark, dropping 12 poorly armed folks. they do have vehicle scale laser canons glued to em. and three of those dues have battle dress and heavy weapons. "So they need to die now," Benat says.
They have different kinds of weapons, crackling with lightning and shit.
Ion Ion is on the Laser Turret, Vex, Isac, Benat, Dix, Urdush, Alana are also here. Castor decides to wake up too. Most people are in cover in various locations around the outer facility
Lawrence rolling for Vex, and Isac and Peter
Dana rolling for: Dix and Urdush and Jin
Gerd is rolling for : Castor and Alana and maybe Mei?
Frank is rolling for: Benat and Ion Ion and Ihero
Dix can't identify any weakspots on the battle dress, and fires at one of them, the gauss rifle just bounces right off the armor. Benat's shot has more success, but not as much as it should have because the uys in armos have some drugs on em
Hammer Boy is charging Benat and Ihero, and throws a grendae at them too. Thankfully he has terrible aim, so we can all guess why he usually uses a gravity hammer.
Plasma Bro takes a shot at Benat next. Benat ducks for cover, thankfully avoiding a hit.
Alana has one of the weapons that chopped up our old friend, aims and shoots. Peter is up in a turret. Making Dix, Urdush, and Jin the biggest target. So Urdush gets plugged full of holes, Dix just gets scraped.
Jin aims and shoots at Gatling Laser and punches into his armor.
Isac fires his laser rifle on one of the more lightly armored individuals who is running for one of their vehicle mounted weapons, and does some pretty good damage to one of them. Dix says "at least we can drop some of these varmints" as that individual runs away.
Ihero aims the hammer bro but unfortunately misses.
Gunners make some shots. Dix, takes a shot, Alana takes cover, and Ihero is missed. Dix is bleeding, but it could be worse.
Urdush gets into deeper cover, and makes a terrible pot shot. Vex drops one of the pirates heading for a vehicle., meaning only one got to the vehicle and has mounted a vehicle, another starts following. the 3 remaining slug fighters, start taking shots, but doesn't really land anyone.
Castor whips out micro kinesis to fuck with the battle canons batteries, but actually accomplishes nothing. all that appeared to happen is he stared into the distance for a little bit, one eye twitching, and nothing happens.
Peter takes his shot from the sniper post, but misses. Ion has the chance to clap some cheeks. He's wearing a condom. he aims in the sort of direction of the plasma cannon. Ion continues to eat shit despite having very good skills.
Dix tries to shoot Laser mister and doesnt get much done. Benat goes for mister plasma, hits the plasma collector, which gets torn out by the bearer, and tosses it at benat and ihero. He does fall down, but they get hit by essentially a plasma grenade. they take cover, putting the building at risk, but there's only the two other plasma weapons coming online.
And then Benat gets smacked by a big boy big big hammer.
alana says "fuck it we ball" and her bullet bounces off the armor.
Getling Bro unloads in Dix's face. (Not how I usually enjoy having gentlemen unload in my face)so he dodges out of the way, lets the building take some.
Jin fires at Gatling Guy, it hurt, pretty significantly. Isac misses real bad. He's having a very bad no good terrible day actually.
The building takes 2 shots when isac dodges some gauss fire. a critical piece of machinery takes one of those shots and is spraying bits all over the place. Urdush whiffs another shot from deep cover. Vex drops the guy heading for the vehicle weapon. Then Vex takes a hit, drops, and might fucking die.
at least Ion finally lands a hit on something. He's figured out how to turn on Targeting, and blows a ship and a couple dudes sky high.
Dix auto fires at two of the guys with gauss rifles, hits one who stands his ground, and the other runs away.
Ihero's head explodes under Hammer bro's Hammer.
Gatling meets his end at Mei's hands. Jin fails to get through hammer's armor.
some more shit goes bad, two people run away on foot, and now we just looking at Hammer Bro, who is probably drugged and in a frenzy.
Benat lands the last shot onto the Hammer Bro
Benat is able to do first aid on Vex to put him up to Critical condition.
Castor yanks away our battle dress friends, whose armours are technically salvageable, but it will need to be repaired, which will cost as much as buying fresh battle dress. Logically this shit is totalled. We still throw it into the luggage compartment.
Ihero is given a little burial. It's crazy how well armed these fucking Pirates are. Jin starts to investigate, finding evidence of the previous mercenary companie, and evidence of a special band of pirates, whose name is "The Space King", and they're who were wearing the battle dress. The Space King seems to have some space support that maybe our ship should do some of the shooting at.
Benat patches some people together. unfortunately ihero is beyond fixing.
Mercenary Shenanigans
So with our merry band of mercenary friends, we head off to protect our employer's ship yard. we are hot bunking heavily, as we have crammed 16 into a ship designed for 19. We end up in Scientia.
Mostly breathable atmosphere when accompanied with an oxygen tank. pressure wont kill you, heat won't kill you, air isnt made of acid. Shipyard for smallcraft, only a population of a couple hundred, mostly working for the guild. The ship manufacturerer is a small firm called the "Nev Nortara Free Shipbuilders Association" who are defectors from the authoriatarian government of Nortara in space south. they are mostly funded by the Guild. they are probably using standard ship designs.
We land on the 8th of October and begin work almost immediately
Landing is pretty informal process, we are given a landing point by Nev Nortara, and they arrange us some barracks, left behind by the previous group which was 20 strong. we ask Jin to investigate the barracks, to see what we can learn about our previous folks. There was a explosive charge set on the wall, big enough to blow up a wall, but it hasnt gone off yet. It is remotely triggered. Ihero looks at the bomb says "Back the fuck off." , has to stop Castor from fucking with it. He says Uh-oh. He removes it from the wall. and starts walking to the door. He leaves with the bomb and returns about 10 minutes later, looking nervous, but relieved. "Assuming it's not secretly a pocket nuke, we should be good" Hifgh Fives all around.
Castor asks himself "Can I teleport it, or just myself?"
Vex explains shift rotations to Lucid, who assigns people to the shifts/ Vex said "Good job, Captain"
Lucid says "Me? Captain? That's that one," and points at Peter who is half zombified.
"I am first among equals,"nPeter responds
"Sure, Captain Peter."
Shift 1: Vex, Isac, Benat, Dix, Urdush, Alanna
Shift 2: Jan, Peter, Ihero, Mei, Jin, AstridIoion and mei find anomalous results, skeleton crew
Shift 3: Lucid, Talia, Luqia, Castor, Thad, Migo
Shift 1 is boring, Shift 2, Ion notices some sonsory things on the sensors. Electronic signatures on the perimeter, Ion will need time to figure out what exactly they are. Mei and Ihero go to check it out, to Ion it appears to be sensing equipment.
Peter asks Ihero and Mei to not just shoot the shit out of it, but actually try to figure out what it is.
Mei is in the lead and says "Yup, looks like a range finder. authorization to kick?" these boots are made for kicking, and thats just what they'll do! they are clearly prepareing to call in millitary or artillery strikes. Ihero suggests we try to find their base and place the rangefinder on top of their base.
Mei sets up patrol and overwatch, so Peter and Jin can come investigate.Jin finds footprints, and yeah there are foot prints. Whoever did this was a millitary trained team, came in 2 groups of 2, setting up overwatch about 50 meters away, and the 2 teams left in 2 different direcrions.
Ioion and Peter head to the Harrier to scan for these assholes, Mei is along with her kickin boots to kick the whole base apart.
After about an hour, , Ioion finds the suspicious looking base. Weprobably don't wantnto just drop Mei in alone because they mary also have warcrime launchers.
Ioion and Mei are gonna take about an hour to get a full recon sweep, in the meanwhile, the Harrier is gonna pick up Castor and Thad.
Ioion and mei have anomalous results, they find a skeleton crewthey are using light infantry weapons, the thin thy were hoping to guide a plasma missile wrack into the barracks and utterly annihilate our merc team.
They seem to be very interested in fucking up us mercs.
So Mei, Castor, Thad, and Astrid and gonna storm that base. We are able to clear out the camp and smash the missile launcher, take a few prisoners. Astrid has been seriously wounded, and cannot be used for the rest of the adventure. Mei is lightly injured, before Benat is able to lay his magic hands on her. \
Zombie Benat complains about the lack of medical facilities.
why would we want medical facilities when we could have shiny guns?
Lucid do some invesigating,
"WHO DO YOU WORK FOR? captain
WHO HIRED YOUR CAPTAIN? no one? we want a bigger nicer ship.
HOW DID YOU LEARN ABOUT THIS SHIP? rheres this guy Frank in accounting who knows someone who knows someone, i mean, loose lips evacuate ships after all.
Ihero threatens the guy with a shot gun to find out if they heard anything from the previous mercs. They did indeed. the guy doesn't known't know anything about the actual plan. beyond that.
Thankfully 3rd shift goes by relatively uneventfully. Benat spends most of that time in intenstive surgery on Astrid. Menwhile Lucid is getting in his way trying to make stew. Benat gets increasingly frustrated, when Lucid offers him some stew, saying "well, it's for you. Considering you havent eaten in *counts fingers* 12 hours"
Funding our Fleet
We fly to Miracle, a week passes.
As soon as we arrive we receive a transmission with a set of coordinates. We look it up and it's a tavern at the edge of a town named Soto De Hielo. The transmission was sent at about the same time we left Miracle last time, interesting.
Soto De Hielo is a 15,000 to 20,000 people, and has it's own spaceport. Lucid is wearing a flying sword in a sheath on her waist. It's a little obnoxiously large on her build. But I think it looks cool.
We enter a typical cyber punk tavern. We order drinks, and begin sipping our drinks by the time we are approached by whomever approached. Lucid has downed most of her energy drink in that time. Peter gets a pulpy nanobrew that is 50% Hops by volume. Benat orders a regional favourite micro brew like a ?Mao? The local tradition is a beer so hoppy you can chew it, and a plate of worm cheese as a tapas.
A cloaked person approaches, cloaked in grey. they have a shaved head and an androgynous build. They sit between Lucid and Peter. The Barkeep brings them the local favorite. They fiddle with something in their cloak, before a "different presence" comes forward.
there is an industrial building on sienta that needs to be guarded while it builds a ship for one of their clients. needs 12 mercenaries. This presence can also create some "credible reccomendations" 500,000 credits to help fund and furnish a mercenary team. there will be more payment on the back end.
"I am part f an Anti-Piracy group that has been operating for 500 years. I only have a handful of ships and a handful of crew." the client getting a ship produced is a planetary system navy. This person pulls out a credit stick and hands it to Lucid. 500,000 guild standard payments. 3 million for success, doubled in return for escort duty. We only have to escort over one system.
They send Lucid a link to mercenary recruitment website.
Who is possibly attacking. moderate risk of light pirate attack. The previous set of mercenaries may be collaborating with the pirates.
Previous mercenaries was a group of 12 in millitarized vaac suits with mostly normal guns.
We need to guard the facility for 5 days in 10 days time.
Strongly prefer a ground presence of at least 4 at all times, rest of us can be in Harry.
We are instructed to return to this exact bar to receive payment. Then the person reaches into their head to to turn the switch off.
After which this person does not recognize us properly anymore. They refer to the person who spoke to us as Boss.
Boss is an agent wafer in the back of their head.
We decide to recruit all 12 of our new fleet members. It costs 460320 to hire and equip everyone.
The Journal Entry’s title
Lucid didn't pay that much attention to what people did in the moon base tbh, but she is excited by the possibilities that these new ships offer.
Castor's friend who can do J Drive magic is located on Miracle, so convenient! Castor does not have enough time to explain "The Path", it does not have 8 folds in it it. "A small group I joined during millitary service composed of psymsns. It's a telepath religion essentially, we all make it to the end of the road essentially... there's this figure who helped us build these interspatial roads, but there's somethings I didn't want to do, but we all build our own path. That sort of thing."
Peter [retends to be noraml, is not normal.
"Their man in the ksy is a great figure with 8 10s arms."
"That's as many as 80 arms! That's terrible."
With Castor chuckling nervouskly, we prepare to head to Miracle. Dot declines to join us.
We arrive on Miracle. Plays "Miracle" by Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding.
Peter also comes along to the Dokyard, to rustle up some engy types to help work on our ship. Peter managed to recruit 5 engineery workery types.
Castor's friend is hooking us up with a free J Drive. We're gonna get a big one for our big boy. We are also buying a Vac suit for Dr. Thorne.
Castor asks Alanna to join him for a drink to work out some spreadsheet shit. He is turned down very professionally.
We head back to Midgard with our new friends to get the J Drive installed into our new toy.
We will need to pay our new friends of course. Peter sits the engineers down for the Horizontal Power Structures Talk. Castor downs a bottle of soju and starts being catty with Lucid in the background. Lucid thinks everything Peter says is based, she just likes to make fun of the way his pants fit. Two of the engineers seem genuinely kinda interested. Lucid realizes that she should actually help him with this in the future, rather than being bitchy.
After an uncomfortable ride to Midgard. they are able to begin unloading all of the J Drive parts. on the moon base. It'll take 5 days to get the Legate Class ship Running. We need to bring 30 tons of "stuff" to midgard to get the other ships into jumping order.
To clean up the Harrier completely, will be 20 mil, just to fix it up with 12 mil. It won't take very long. We decide to get the Harrier Du Bois fixed up and tightened up.
Ragnarok Protocol
We need an "All clear code" to deactivaye the Ragnarok Protocol to get into the facility. But to get the all clear code the dog bot needs to boot up an avatar, but to boot up the avatar the reactor needs to be repaired.
Lucid needs Astrid's help putting on a Vacc Suit. Lucid has the knee pads on her knee-pits. Astrid helps Lucid with the draw strings. It takes about 15 minutes to get Lucid all trussed up.
"Thank you Astrid, I truly owe you my life."
"Yeah, you probably owe me a couple of beers"
"What is the life to beer ratio?
"1 beer is equal to point 0.025 Lives."
So Lucid, Benat, and Castor all convene in the main reactor.
We begin the Task Chain.
Someone needs to power it up, someone needs to manage the power levels, and someone needs to stabilize it.
It'll go Castor, Lucid, Benat.
Castor kinda fumbles it, and it takes him 4 hours.
Lucid also fumbles it too, so they have to start back over.
They sleep it off, and start back in the morning. Lucid will borrow Astrid's Combat Armour, with Astrid's help putting on armour.
Let's start it again.
Castor does a better job, and Lucid very successfully manages the reactor for Benat, and Benat is able to stabilize the reactor successfully.
DATO is able to begin 3D printing an avatar, an android. The avatar has a more natural speaking voice. We can now head to the Moon Facility.
Lucid watches from the ship, while the others space walk to the facility.
Geronimo Midgard
We do a masked Stealth jump to Midgard. Regardless, some patrol ships come around. Lucid jams their sensors, but not well enough that they don't notice the jam on everything. They seem to be the automated defenses that our scientist friend warned us about.
Lucid is okay at jamming them. Made a pretty good virus, but not good enough to compare to a automated crew. Probably could have tricked a human crew. She puts it away for the future.
She and peter are trying to share one stool, and he totally biffs trying to locate their base. Lucid gives it a go, and finds their transmitter is on the moon. Then when the ships scan them, it turns around and head backs to the moon. We get a message inviting us to dock at coordinates and have our ship repaired. it seems a little strange.
Castor also is a little strange. He tries to explain the psionic things, but its sounds more like an awkward sex ed talk. He poorly reassures us of his immunity to the Jredd.
Hanging Dong while on the ship is called "Ripley-ing it"
Castor describes the song of the Jredd to us.
We go to the "Carwash", catching a view of the planet on our way.
Atmosphere of the planet is infested with Jredd Spores. It is a sea of red, lots of, lots of red. Not too many of the scary ones which carry plasma cannons. Overall, covered in Jredd. 1 technical facility on the planet surface, which would be the carwash. it seems to be in somewhat disrepair. But it has hardlight fences and patrolling robots on the perimeter. The perimeter lso hase a kilometer wide debris field beyond the fence.
The rest of the team suit up to head into the facility. Lucid opts to stay on the ship. They are lead inside by two hover dog bots and through an air lock.
The dog bot says some shit about admiral franco, ragnarock protocol, etc
To be fair...
We are with Dr. Aris Thorne, an outspoken Urean xenobiologist with wild eyes and wilder theories about the Jred. She’s convinced Midgard holds “the truth.”
She wants to establish a base on Midgard to study the Jredd.
While on Miracle, Lucid decides to fix the danger droid, install a swarm controller, and buy a swarm of hunter bugs.
So the Danger droid is now repaired, and is prepared to control 10 hunter bugs at a time. She paints the droid a bright Cyan.
No We Don't Need to Explain Ourselves
Leaving Bolivar quickly after dropping a couple pablanos, no big deal.
We stop in Copelands to drop a hose and be cheap. Castor pokes a turret, and Astrid dresses him down.
Bounce to NovaViaVulga
We speak to some customs agents as we bounce in to the Istangraad
Benat has to stay behind on the ship because they don't like his kind round these parts.
Castor discovers Aiden's cash in a safe in his dorm which was previously Aidens. it took Castor a little while to pick the lock, and the funds are added to the shared ship's fund.
Once theyve gotten closer to Jredd frontier, Lucid Carouses up a scientist to join up on the way into Midgar. Midgar was once a corporate system, got hammered fairly early into the jredd scourge, given its proximity. the protective systems built by corporate are still there. the scientist would like some assistance in establishing a planet side lab.
We come across the Miracle shipyard and ask if they can work on our ship, meeting Henryk Haldane, a fence
Speedrunning MLG
We are going to do some speedrunning
Axiom to Tunguska to Arcturus, gonna bring some mail with us, 15 tonnes to be exact
Apparently we have inspired Castor to take some action. He has also taken a liking to the Harrier DuBois
Castor is described as "A bit older", as in is older than Benat. Resembles a ruddier harder lived Collin Baker.
We get paid 75,000 credits fpr the mail in arcturus., then pick up another 25 tonnes of mail for Lemarc
We also get a job to deliver people to an diplomatic conference. It would take us a month, require 10 trips, and make us a bucket of money, Net 90,00. Paying High passage rates for middle passage. Lucid turns down the job, as she would be stewarding for a month straight.
Arrive in Lemarc, get paid 125,000, So we spend a week studying and refining fuel. As well as picking up another 5 tons of mail.
Lets pick up some work in Lemarc. Lucid heads to a bar with Castor, showing him how she used to drink with aiden
Someone comes in looking specifically for Lucid, as a member of the Harrier Dubois. A corporate looking type of guy.
"My company has a special lab on bolivar, and all contact has been lost, i'd like you to contact the lab and see what' going on."
They would like to receive the message back from someone not associated with us.
The lab has landing pad, problem: there might be automated defenses, and without anyone there to turn them off, we might get shot.
Lucid sends the lab a hail, asking for their status. They do not respond. I can tell their sensors received the signal, but no actual response.
The Lab is in the territory of the Sky-watch Sentinels: former members of the planetary militarized custom service that have established a dictatorship in the area.
Could we drop garbage and watch what it does? Only if we have powered garbage.
Company is neutral in civil war, placed the base in Skywatch to avoid eyes.
We make contact with a member of Skywatch, based on uniforms. We get to speak with a Major Sanchez. They have no clue whats up at the lab other than that they have no WMDs.
The corporation is called Applied Robotics "They make Robits"
We plan to stealth our way down to the pad, sensor on the way down, and send a party in to investigate. Peter will stay on the lab ready to punch the gas. Astrid will stay on ship?
"It is in our interest to keep this on the down low"
We go to investigate, and send the news back with some random. The guy gives Lucid a cypher and an encrypted data disc to send the news back with. Report will pay 125 K to each player character, with hazard pay to be provided depending on the details of the hazard.
There is no power to the automated defenses, so Lucid will not need to be focusing on the stealth while landed.
Lucid needs to focus on watching sensors to make sure we're not getting snuck up on, and piloting the drone. Peter starts to scrub through the radio stations to try and learn about what's happening in the war. he is paranoid that they are going to get attacked as part of the war. Lucid slaps his hand off the knob saying "Can't fucking focus"
Our team goes in, Zombie Castor, Normal Benat, and Kira (The robot). They find the pad to be compleyely silent. No lights are on inside. The facility seems to be locked down. No power so no communications.
How to get past the fence. Shooting it would take some serious finesse. Benat climbs the fence, leaving some footholds for Castor to use. They leave footholds behind on the correct side of the fence. They elect not to get distracted by lock picking the gate.
They enter the front door, "It's a bit of a mess, stuff all over the place. There's a distinct absence of people in the area."
Benat looks around and sees signs of laser scoring and flecks of blood. Hears some noises down in the basement.
Drone is on point, Benat next, Castor in the back.
Roll Stealth
Inside the lab there are numerous robots, appear to be putting cybernetics into corpses.
And theres a big ole gun strapped to a big ole robot. They have killed all the roboticists and have started installing cybernetics into it.
Benat recognizes the big gun bot as a basilisk bot, it can be an effective infantry platoon on its own.
We decided to turn tail and haul ass. They manage to spot us on the way out and send some pot shots at us.
Castor takes 10 points of damage on the retreat.
We instruct Astrid to drop as many pablanos as necessary. She drops 4.
The basilisk is still in okay shape, but somewhat inoperable. We decide to retrieve it. It takes up .3 tons of storage.
Lucid slaps a bike lock on it, trying to put it in safety mode. It is ineffective.
We send word back to the corporate with courier. Lab was haunted.
Customs agents accost us, but let us by with a brief explanation. Peter is incredibly salty about being asked why we dropped 4 pablanos on the planet.
We also ask if they had any mail we could deliver, but they have too much mail then.
We move onto Coblensis.
Execute the Plan
Plans are laid
Castor "I've been a gun. I've been a blow torch. If you need a body, you've got a body, and a pretty good one at that." Thomas
Castor "I'm able bodied, I'll give you that," Thomas
Castor "I've been helpin'em fix whatevers been around" Thomas
Svedka hates psions and has a particular hatred of Castor, for being in the psionic closet while dating her, and has been targetting Veii for that reason
Peter is pilot, Benat is "captain", Lucid is Sensor Ops, Castor is over seeing Biggs in the Engineer room. Astrid is Gunner, of course
The attack on Veii
Sveka Arendtz
Thanks to our successful lobster based blackmail, we get fed the attack plan on the town. 2 Type 777 Unmarked container ships each carrying 6 containers dropping death squads in 5 days ish. Transports are scheduled to arrive on the 20th. There will be 100 to 120 personnel.
Can we booby trap the standard jump gate they will be arriving through? It could likely cause harm to innocents. perhaps we could
Could we sell them out to some pirates and make it clear we have no interest in the booty?
The city has mustered up about 25 people. we have armed them with the arc field rifles fr0m the mercenaries we took down.
Veii itself is only a couple hundred, maybe a thousand people. We ask around the local towns
Lucid does a mass ping to the planet, and is able to rustle up 4 more platoons
Benat educates the platoons about Guerilla tactics
We suggest the noncoms run for the hills.
Astrid manages to find a pirate ship to help out in fucking these fools up
We recruit Biggs Shitto to help with the engineering
The Journal Entry’s title
Lucid and Benat pick out a piece of junk from the ship, a comptoner ,which we will claim to be a Cond-toner, which Tones the condensation, increasing the condensation efficiency by 13%. (An ice cream maker)
She wears a black turtle neck and jorts, trying to get a Elizabeth Holmes typa look. Like if Elizabeth Holmes cut her jeans so short that you can just barely see her butt cheeks. Peter is her lawyer, and Alanna is the accountant. We are going to sell this product to Vapetech to try and scope them out, and hopefully distract them from Benat's infiltration. Alanna is in a business Skant.
"We don't do appointments"
"Considering the conditions under which we left our previous arrangement, we weren't quite able to call ahead and set an appointment as such."
We are told to wait 2 hours for our meeting, and we retrieve some shitty soy-caf.
While we are there, Peter uses jack of all trades to do a spot of Recon.
Lucid tries to do a rousing explanation of her device, but unfortunately they did bring the engineers into the meeting, who ask some very good questions that lucid fails to answer meaningfully. But she does at least convince people in the room that she believes her own shit. A ridiculous Nepo-Baby essentially. They are escorted politely out, and Peter is able to get a good look at all of the positions and places for Benat's infiltration.
Benat crat on his roll and is doing fantastic. At the computer core, he called Lucid up for some remote IT support. And she fucks it. He barely escapes with terabytes of lobster porn. We plan to blackmail the guy who had it to prevent the cannae clause.
We send him an email from [email protected] threateneing to expose him. We attach a video of lobsters boiling. these lobsters have the distinct knotch in their tail.
On second thought, Benat does recall seeing a fish tank in the quarters. With lobsters. And crabs. And shrimps.
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Alana rode in with Benat and Aiden
Lucid's electronic sensors skills allows them to avoid a second round of ambush on their faux vaporateor delivery.
Two bolts go off an completely vaporize the first guard vehicle.
There are two armed skiffs and 2 extended body air rafts. Aiden says "THEY HAVE A GODDAMN PLASMA CANNON?"
the extended body air rafts would be suitable for the theft of vaporators. Lucid's going to try and drop onto one of these to destroy it and make it inoperable. maybe also find some identifiable information in the process?
Danger Droid is dropped onto the eastern armored skiff, doing 8 points of damage to it and landing on the side of it, taking 4 damage. A horrible noise rings out through the vehicle.
Droid is surrounded by assholes with swords, they slash right through the droids armor
but droid turns around and thrusts a manipulator into the vehicle nearby, looking to further disable it. IT is still capable of shooting, but Lucid has destroyed it's mobilization abilities.
Peter ends up firing big nuclear gun at the skiff closer to Lucid's droid. far more than just the 3 hits it had left to spare.. She is fuming.
Aiden got cut in half Darth Maul style, so we are putting his top half into stasis. We left his ass and balls behind.
We take a look at the one remaining skiff. There was a communication Pad inside. Lucid snatches it and starts looking through it. Theres a lot of raider shit in there, but theres a contract from "Vape Tech" contracting Raul's Raiders. Vape Tech are the people who make the vaporateurs. Paying and arming Raiders to hit their caravans. They also provided the caravans times and locations. One more clause, "Cannae" protocol, raiders need to report back after being put off, or else the city will be burned down in 3 days. It's going to be liquidated.
Alanna looks at the contract and determines they're trying to indenture the colonists of actium. The Cannae clause is a show of force when the people try to stand up against the raiding.
We have definitely wiped out this particular gang. but Vape Tech is still going to send their paramilitary squad to liquidate Vae.
So we call Vape Tech and we successfully convince them that we are Raul's Raiders and have successfully done the hit. We are given information on the next hit to hit.
Maybe we go to their headquarters to try and scope them out.
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We get back to Byzantium without getting into shit, journalist in hand.
another week and a day have passed, so Lucid finishes her book about electronics remote ops.
Aidan becomes an almost demeaning/insulting sort of host at a host cafe. Genevieve pays us 250,000 credits, which is to be deposited into our gas fund. We pick up 5 tonnes of flash drives in New Raqqa for Actium
On Actium I learned that theres been a raid of vaporators in a small town. We want to check out the site where they were attacked, we should investigate it secretly. We are going to rent a vehicle, and Lucid selects yee yee ass outfits for the whole crew. 10 credits per person, except Lucid's set will be somewhat more flashy, but not so far as to undermine the intention of flying under the radar.
Lucid's suit cost her 100 credits, so the shopping was 130 total
To decide where to land our ship we have to do math and science about super earth and distance of the horizon. We take the big ship to just out of eye sight of the site, and take our rented vehicle from there to the site. The raft will then take about 30 minutes to reach the site.
Lucid/Droid stay with the ship as the men go to check out the site. Benat has a large poncho on on top of his flak jacket and desert suit. He has his Gauss Rifle with him.
Peter is "just the driver" so he has aviators and a fringe jacket that trails in the wind, also motorcycle gloves.
Aidan has more of a brown leather jacket.
On the site, we find some armoured trucks, pretty damaged, and another vehicle that might be fixable, with an open bed.
We are in a rocky area, fewer sand dunes. I think it's that one set of rocks near hollywood. Armoured trucks were hit pretty nasty. Don't see any bodies. Only obvious blast marks are on the armoured cars.
Aidan takes a closer look at the blast marks, and doesn't find any more. He determines that it was more of a pin point weapon than artillery. Very precise violence. could be TL 5 or TL 18.
Benat investigates the direction of the attack, where they might have attacked from etc. They were attacked from the South, as they were heading East
Benat tries to look at for tracks but fails to figure anything out.
They go to look for the attack spot in the south. They ambushed from within a narrow canyon? In this new location, we get the vague sense that they headed north. We don't see much in the way of vehicle tracks. there are some foot prints, but ground was dispersed by an air craft or grav vehicle, which went north from this location, but could have gone any number of locations.
Benat looks for shell casings, doesn't find any.
Our plan from here, we want to go back to town and speak to this guy who had his vaporator jacked, and see about arranging for a decoy vaporator drop so that we can be a part of his delivery team. in the meanwhile we will speak to other unhappy vaporator customers. information might be leaking about vaporator orders and deliveries from the downstation.
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Time to extract some journalistes, travelling on someone else's transport, which means leaving shit behind. Thankfully I am allowed to bring my "Rescue Unit"
We are travelling with a private courier company, who's mandate is travelling between rivals in the sol sector engaged in a cold war.
The journalist we are trying to extract is in the process of trying to self deport, or we can scoop her up and help her out.
We send a message to the journalist saying "We are friends of Gen" There is a lot of tension in the street.
She responds "Follow the tracking protocol" and our device starts wibble wobble in a particular direction. Very subtle device. it vibrates
We have 3 or 4 days or so until our ride leaves without us.
The device is sending us into the wilderness. Eurasian Steppe type of environment. "You get the impression there aren't a lot of large trees" lots of great large plains and grass lands, native herders keep sheep like animals, khagan ovis. we get this information from space wikipedia. the native peoples are the Arush.
"There's no wifi out here!" Lucid complains as we are lead to the mountains.
We start looking for some indigenous folks we can befriend. Some of the kids enjoy Lucid's chewing gum. we are able to get some directions from them.
We have met the journalist, Valenti before the end of the day, where they are residing in a yurt, living with a local family, who they seem to know.
Valenti pokes their face out of the yurt, and is visibly relieved to see us, who do not look like customs officers.
Benat Peter and Aidan take watch over night
Dice Rolls
all clear!
Lucid is able to get a fake id for Valenti to enter the city, but when you enter the city, they scan your face and check it against a database, and not against the ID
Benat and Aidan are gonna be up to their waist in waste to get valenti in through the sewers. Lucid and Peter greet the three of them with fresh pants and socks and air fresheners for our smeely friends. we walk another half kilometer to return to our ship where we have showers and what not.
The Wood Trade
We trade some wood around, and arrive in byzantium.
Peter's booty call get's us a job doing some extraction which is pretty cool. We gonna fly out and yank out some sources of a journalist friend of geneveive
You See Where it Goned Wrong?
Danger Droid slides into the room, takes the suppressant from Aidans hands and slams it into the bitches thigh. philosophical debate regarding Old Yeller commences. Danger Droid also helps Benat back onto his feet for the debate.
We half a Day and a half, and while psionic suppressants aren't expensive, they also aren't widely available.
"I really don't want to shoot this old lady."
"Okay watch this-" Aiden puts her into permanent animation.
"That's what she gets for insulting my quesadillas."
Y3773R is the name of a robot in a story that had to be recalled.
the one where we wish we had psi-detectors
Barbour is nasty and sooty. We pick up ome passengers at a snooty whiskey bar.
They're socialites, trying to get to her estranged husband's funeral, and collect on the estate
The old lady starts suffering jump sickness big time, barfing n all that. Her son is refusing actual medical treatment or restraints
she starts leaving her room at night and floating around. her face is doing some supernatural shit and it is running's aiden up the walls.
Aiden says we'd better shoot her. So he goes on Old Yeller watch. when a latent psionic starts doing shit like this, they aren't using their own juice, but getting juiced up by the jump space, and it is likely to devolve into violent shit, she's possessed
Benat wants to reneogtiate with the son of the latent psionic, so we have no earned hazard pay
We wish we had psi-detectors in order to know when exactly to shoot old yeller
At midnight on Day 5, Aiden shouts and gets cut off
He's been ragdolled and shes breaking shit and her head is lolling around and shit
We are gonna pause it here in the midst of this epic psi-fight
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27th of April
so a big Pariahan dog is trying to sniff us out, but we have no gas. We could probably successfully stealth out of sight of most of their ships, but there is a chance theres one of their advanced ships who catch us out. We are trying to juke them out before we go under cloak.
We decide to land on the planet to do a slurp slurp. Lucid spends her time keeping the holo shroud up around them and keeping an eye on the sensors. It takes two days to refill our ship. We actually manage not to get fucked by anyone while waiting to fuel up. and then we manage to get back to report in without our shit getting fucked.
"Xin Heinan got fucked!"
"Welp. time to put together our attack fleet"
We get paid 150K each for the information, and now we volunteer to be a ferry. they will pay us gas money plus 10%.
we will ferry additional troops behind their strike fleet to help hold Xin Heinan
The Nastiest Beats This Side of the Jred Frontier
We just fucked up the guy who fucked over Benat. Syncestraea gave us a nte of whats his face to be a mercenary band, as well as coordinates for a ship debris field from which we could repair the S.S. Good Times. We also picked up Illana, a Pariah turn coat.
We will want to avoid Pariah on our way there for sure. Also good to try and avoid Sol but it won't be completely unavoidable. Lucid is slowly becoming less and less welcome there.
Along the way, we are going to pass through Space China, Space India etc.
Lucid decides she's going to start making music, just the nastiest psi-core music. You know white noise? brown noise? She's attempting to make Ultra-Violet noise.
Lucid asks Ilana to contribute, but she had too many music lessons as a young person, so she can't really growl or anything like that. She has an okay Blood curdling scream. She's something of a mezzo-soprano.
Peter brokers us a contract to bring a sycestraea diplomat to Space China Capital.
Diplomat is well dressed, but not obnoxiously fancy, fuckable androgynous cyberpunk, similar to Jack from Mass Effect. Their name is Aran Abello. They are a local city commissioner who wants to do a sister city program
Lucid's music is a turn off for Aran, but Benat suggests a change in genre, which inadvertently makes him into Lucid's best wing man. The hook up happens on day 3, and Lucid makes Day 4 fairly awkward.
There is something about Aran/the encounter with Aran that Lucid is failing to notice.
Peter has a strict "no drinks on the bridge" policy, because of the time Lucid spilled a mtn dew on the console, and the buttons never clicked and clacked the same after that.
We each pay 52,500 per person for fuel
4 days to get to Ziu Liang, and 3 days there.
On Ziu Liang Lucid finds an open mic and performs some of her new music. She uses the gig fee to buy drinks for everyone in the club.
The club she is playing at is absolutely the crustiest little diy bar. Like beyond the normal level of sticky bar floor, you have to double knot your shoe laces to keep them on.
Rock Me Amadeus is one of her inspirations
We get paid 51,835 for delivering Aran to Ziu Liang (Having deducted the gas and repairs for the jump to Ziu Liang)
I turn my performance into a Carouse, there is cargo on a nearby planet that needs to be "liberated" the pay check is high, but it's a crime. So we might pass on the criming. So Lucid gets called a poser for not wanting to do crimes, even tho shes working for work at Crimes R Us
Peter does some Brokering and finds us a "Rescue Op" a mid level official has gone missing near the borser, maybe kidnapped by Pariah while working in Xin Heinan. If we can make as much as 1.2 million, depending on what condition they are in and whether or not they were actually abducted.
2 Days to Guang Dong, then a Week to Xin Heinan
We all have to pay 26,250 for gas
We are going to be stealthy hopping into Xin Heinan. It is eerily quiet here.
Let's run a sensor sweep. Lucid feels to be sneaky about it. Spaceport was under bombardment. Lucoid gets return pings from the other side of the planet. They are low power and distinctly pariahn in nature. We ask Illana to take a look at the return pings. She cannot confirm that it is pariahn or not. Especially as she is not a sensor operator
15 minutes later we get a message saying the system is under occupation and to prepare for inspection. let's GTFO. Except we have no gas and we need some time to plot our approach.
We have homework of reading up on space combat rules.
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I spend a good amount of time with Dora's guy and buildig my robit.
Also i try and fail to learn how to surf, it was really bad. coughing sea water out of her nose.
We debate ways to lure out Gravol, starting with the idea of a morale concert, end up switching to a burlesque type honeypot show. She will have Aiden and Benat there to look out for her, as well as a gun drone in the closet.
Benat took 4 days to make contact with a CPLF guy, while Aiden and I organize our way to a burlesque show.
Wenat, Peter in a fake beard, and Aiden go to meet with the contact
I can spell Syncaestraea better than Peter
We jump to the ritzy lovely NC port, in line with hundreds and thousands of other ships. A single bead of sweat is visible on Peter's face as he navigates the parking lot. Klaxon rings at one point when Peter has slipped out of the lane. The spanish bureaucracy is fully automated and functions like a beauty. Its very nice, reminiscent of Luna, but not run by a dictatorship
Benat responds to a text on his Nokia. He tells us that if he goes to Wahaka he can let Arkip bunk with the rents. Benat is invited to dinner by a recently promoted Admiral Ianara. party is on the moon Al Bracht.
"If you know one thing about me... I love a Soiree"
We spend the two days required to clean out the cargo hold of cat litter.
The dress I chose for this evening was referred to as a "Shamwow" by Benat. of course. There are only two other guests at the table. We are kissed politely as greeting, which does startle Lucid moderately.
Peter starts talking about "Journay to the West" and Nova Calvinism and Soddom and Gomorrah.
"I was always worried about getting left behind next Friday.
Captain Dora begins to hint at offering a job. shes a partyina ai placed inside of a robot and asks her very probing questions about nerves and strain.
Lucid is very happy to munch on churros.
Lucid learns Benat's last name for the first time. This is going to be related to a dude from his past. there is a civil war that syncestraea is not supposed to involve themselves in. the planet the civil war has occured on has closed their ports to synceaestraea. Galval has a mole placed among the syncaestraeans that requires the use of us outsiders.
Lucid also lands the phone number of Dora's robot body guy. we are also offered help acquiring a letter of Mark, or the opportunity to join the galactic mercenary guild.
They want us to kill that guy. Dora also passes over a cool plasma rifle as hand gun.
After negotiations are complete, the dinner lasts another 3 or so hours, exchanging stories and drinking coffee nd beer
then we go meet Benat's family, and Lucid gets to pet the space cow Elisabeta, she is very soft and lovely.
CAT-ASTROPHIC HAUL
jumping from Pandya to Babur, it's a lot smoggier here.
I overhear a lucrative opportunity in a scummier bar, the local government (Aseni Republic of Vega) has misplaced some crates in a local asteroid belt where there was a training base. Benat nudges a little more and learns that the ship disappeared on it's way to a larger military training base, and they have a last known location
What is the cargo? millitary supplies, do we need a fence? they might be pleased we stole from the aseni republic of vega.
it takes us 3 days to get to the belt, I do get a return ping on my sensor reading, giving us a direction to head in (a bearing) it's been burning at a solid 1g ever since it went missing, after taking a space "left", it was initially going against the orbit of the belt, but has fallen into the asteroid belt's natural orbit.
We pursue this bearing for another 6 hours, fail, another 6 hours, and now I have a location and trajectory, it appears to be heading away from us at an unchanged buring rate, about 8 hours away.
after we reach out to offer assistance they respond "assistance not required, please leave"
They are in a solar sailor, it won't have a ton of weaponry, we would out gun them, but they seem to have installed an aftermarket m drive. We can totally bully them. we considered turning them in for treason, kinda wanna trail them, but our stealth systems are fuel hogs
we follow for another 12 hours, as they approach another large asteroid in the system, which does have laser pistols. so we peel away. we don't really have a reason to fuck shit up, and don't need our shit fucked.
at this point 2 weeks have passed, and we need to spend some time gassing up we pay 50k for gas, and jump to xin heinan get another study week
lots of active terraforming, they've been trying to rehab this planet for about 500 thousand years, after an early butchered exploration, mis-jump. This planet could be described as a bit of a "fixer upper"
i specifically spread along the "juicy" rumor here. we find a job doing cat delivery here on xin heinen we spend like 9 days here?
We jump to Xin guangdong and pick up 5 to 6 hundred cats. there really arent any other job opportunities here. Peter was able to get a government job delivering a diplomatic missive.
We need to make three animal rolls to successfully hendle the animals. none of us know much abouit animals. Peter does one roll, and Benat does the other two, and does them quite poorly.
All the cats go loose!! Benat loses a study period having to track them down and patch them up. Lucid is making some "The DoDo" quality video. Benat is cursing at the cats in syncestraean. the content does not go over well, keyboard warriors abound. a cat eats some of Aidans psy suppressants. these two cats have become telepathically linked, so benat needs to try and medic them better. they'll be fine.
we just open the cargo bay doors and the cats run out. we are all covered in cat scratches.
and then we travel back to guangdong.
Shmooze-a-rama
Benat sees a familiar ship pull in, syncestrean stealth ship or something.
Lucid orders a concoction of an "americano" and finds it to actually be made as a latte, asks to have it fixed, but realizes it's actually her childhood best friend Lyle! Hes brokering for his dad's family now. She learns that her little sister is linging up to take Dad's council seat, and she is visibly disturbed by it. But she works to make herself interesting enough to be a fascination to him. She knows that where she thrives best is as a clown.
She works to reestablish her rapport with Lyle, so gives him some help in picking out his outfit for the soiree. Charming him, so that he agrees to try and mine some information about the syncestreans in attendance with Lucid.
Lucid is wearing a jumpsuit with a train, that is decorated with fiber optics
Aidan wears a locally purchased opulent suit, but failed to acquire a pocket square, so Lucid provides one for him and folds it nicely
12 groups of people,
the syncestraeans - the big gal is a captain, there is Partian AI in the ships. (Benat knows that she IS a partian AI!!!)
Lyle and his posse
Deepak Kang- outfit is a cross of late 18th century high royalty, smashed with current haute couture bullshit, his hair is in a circular halo shape hanging off the back of his head. when lyle finally introduces her, she kind of embarrasses herself.
Countess Asma in a ballgown
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Signal seems to be discombobulated by an un-updated software
I caroused up a pilot named Ashvari maybe?
DRESSED A COWBOY MESS
at the auction house, with the "nice refreshments"
We are serving major cowboy vibes, but we've completely missed the mark, because the actual vibe is ARMED TO THE GILLS
Jigarthanda beverage drink
WE STAY IN A GIANT MANSION...... BUT AT WHAT COST???
Given That You're Saying Combat
We're doing a fake sting on Blood Rat Blade, and take his products as "evidence" while being spied on by some Martian Marines or whatever.
Lucid might be a little distracted by the scary summonings she has thus far ignored from mom and dad.
Dad= Ludibrium Thursday
Mom= Heiress Thursday née Elyria
Contraband = 1 Basilisk War Frame, 2 Crates Type 622 'Killer Eye' Gun Drones (approx. 24), 2 crates Type 62 Individual Plasma Weapon (approximately 60) (basically souped up plasma rifles with fancy attachments)
Peter tells some good lines, and impresses the Martian Marine Types, very convincing arrest
Lucid makes up some pretend documents to get us past this point
And then Lucid is really happy to fake her death, is already plotting a change of name.
Rolled a 10 to namedrop Dad. Blech, yucky, but it meant we didn't have take apart the warframe.
We've arrived at Cygnus now tho, phew
Moon-Glag
Family sent coordinates to genymede (Moon-glag)... very threatening, and I looked them up and found out that mom got a promotion, and dad got shuffled into state defense.
I am now a preliminar member of the Guild
Our plan for picking up the goods from Blood Rat is making like it's a sting operation, and we are delivering him to "You Know Who" for interrogation.
Today's Episode
"You know I could say something, but it has just as much of an effect as not"
Earth is still hunted, some of the red spots move (cause of life forms)
Parent's sent me coordinates to Ganymede, asking me to meet them there. (Space Gulag)
So I deleted the message, because that sounds like a problem for Later Lucid
I also dumped all of the nasty R34 esque messages into my homegrown LLM, with the intention to create the most vile chat bot possible
Getting Recognized at the Turkish Cafe?!?!?!
*A montage of Lucid Thursday, now with her new dark purple hair, and muted wardrobe choices. She is seen looking wistfully out the window as stars blink past, sweeping morosely through the peeling golden walls of the Venator, and removing her tear stained makeup*
"Hey guys, you've probably noticed that I haven't been online much anymore. I've been going through a bit of a brand-identity crisis"
"But today we get to spy on my coworker as he goes on a date with a previous fling"
Lucid, (as DrrtyThursday of course) is seen applying a disguise of some sort.
"I've been mostly spending my time reading, studying... researching..."
"Now my transformation is complete, you shall henceforth know me as.... SnEaKyThUrSdAy"
Lucid is now seen seated in a cafe, wearing sunglasses indoors
"This date is super lame, they're just talking about work. And this coffee I ordered is waaayyy too strong"
The coffee is a very very pale tan color. Lucid frowns as she stirs another packet of sugar into the coffee. Suddenly she looks up, having been distracted from her mission.
"Peter just left her to finish her lunch alone? what a dick."
Lucid is seen rushing out of the cafe quite clumsily. She is now seen stalking Peter as he crosses town, almost getting hit by a car at least once as she jay walks.
"A second lunch Peter? really? what are we, Plutonian?"
voices in the distance are captioned on screen in pink and red comic sans.
"you mightve seen mumble mumble ambassador"
"Pretty impressive mumble mumble some stream hacker just got busted for weapons trafficking. don't you have a stream hacker on your crew?"
"That streamer is crazy! she's been underground for months!" Lucid shouts, lowering her newspaper. We can see a figure approaching her from behind. The camera falls and goes black.
"My... my knee pits? You recognized me by my knee pits?"
"You... have a freckle..."
Thus begins an impromptu meet up, where Aidan keeps knocking and destroying cameras from admirers. Lucid is having a good time, but is becoming increasingly aware of her compromised anonymity. I make 150000 Credits.
There is a discussion of burning off the identifying freckle, facial modification, the acquisition of pants, etc etc
Returning from ZOOZVE
We have no idea if we are being tracked
"Oh shit- was that my job?" -Lucid
"The Union of Sol shouldn't give you much guff, unless there is specifically a Union of Sol official who is gunning for you." -James
"Someone remind me to dye my hair tonight" - Lucid
Now we arrive at Sar-dookie-ah
theres one called UREA
Cringefailed
Aidan and Benat have gone into the facility, accompanied by two flying guns and Astrid (for 10,000 credits, which I've taken out of Lucid's Account)
three teams roving the hallways, groups of five, meaning there are five combatants who are unaccounted for
"MIL ENCRYP SUITS" sticky note on monitor
two of my flying guns got fragged to shit
WE RAN AWAY AFTER KILLING THREE OF THEM
it has been revealed that part of why lucid ran away is an arranged marriage to a cousin
Peter: give yourself another study week I think?
We lost two of the researchers
Portable Plasma Gun, Human Portable, and Battle Dress
it can do 1 d6 times 10
This was a planned attack, almost certainly orchestrated by Opus Dei, the level of armaments is not unprecedented for them, but not particularly common
Lost in the VOID
We misjumped, and barfed all over the fucking place
Benat apparently did some kind of foolish self sacrificing bullshit, but somehow survived.
At least Peter got a week of studying in during the jump
ACOSTED by the BLACK HAND
We are accosted by the black hand as we leave Greg's World
after Peter just fucking hangs up on the Black Hand who is trying to hold us up, we consult Miku for the best course of action. She analyzes the available data on the opposing ship and our own ship's capabilities, and recommends Running The Fuck Away. Peter cheers because his suggested strategy was to evade and run the fuck away.
Astrid is finally doing what her ACTUAL job is, and looks great doing it.
and Hatsune Miku does indeed fuck shit up, playing musical selections such as The Chicken Dance, Spanish Flea, and the Paw Patrol theme. She also forcibly explains and reccomends homeopathic remedies to the crew, annoying one individual to the point of self spacing sudoku.
Finally we skedaddle away and misjump to safety (?)
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Begin writing your story here...
PASTIEST and SPICIEST Restaurant Ever!!!
We failed to find a fence for the bio-implants, so spectacularly so that Benat was arrested.
Lucid goes on a date with one of the customs agents in bribing for Benat's freedom
The date is awkward, but suitable, Astrid and Peter serving as chaperones.
The food is paste that they add seasoning to? and spread on bread. It was 1,000 credits a head.
Benat is released in return for the date and 40,000 credits, and he appreciates the doggy bag
we have still failed to sell our implants
The influencer discount was so measly it might as well have been an insult. 2 stars
Astrid found someone to sell our other medical supplies to, and we all took home 50,000 credits
MASSIVE COMPUTER HAUL
purchased over 300,000 Credits worth of drone swords and guns!
And then spent 22,850 credits worth of a laptop
It has a decryptor level one, and expert packages advocate and tactics for naval miku
I also bought a sarcastic mirror and a ring laser
Astrid Jensen... O-O
We're taking some cargo, gotta close the case again quickly
Sea Shanties are so this season
10-20 credits at diner
Rocket pie (+50 rad)
Make sure you finish it all so you can get the coupon for 10% off your treatment on the bottom of the pin.
I got THREATENED by CANNIBALS? Storytime.
Cringe-fail space port is essentially a helipad constructed from rusty parts of a crashed space-liner
Accommodations at the Gillman hotel
“We appreciate your appreciation”
Lucid sprained her ankle jumping on the bed, could have ended up in critical care
The water is salty and phosphorous
The Debris field is not worth traversing
According the old calendar it was settled 1500 years ago
Lost contact 500 years ago
Mapostates, black hand, ravaged, they do not belong.
We will tolerate foreigners, apostates will not be permitted to land.
The food is godawful, finishing the potatoes
On the way back to the ship
They heard Arkip and Aidan psychically communicating
Lucid is oblivious
Flying back to the Scout Ship
A missile rockets past us at like, mach 15
just then, the S.S. Good Times flies out of the space station in orbit, and takes out the missile
Arkip goes down from a piece of debris of the explosion.
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